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The rise of ‘bai lan’: why China’s frustrated youth are ready to ‘let it rot
https://www.theguardian.com ^ | 25 May 2022 | Vincent Ni China affairs correspondent

Posted on 06/06/2022 9:29:52 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: Spktyr

Mention here ‘left over women’ - women over 30 who are not married. No male will accept them because the male’s family will not.

Now that situation that would have worked in long ago times (war) is no longer a possible outlet for too many people. Now families depend on the financial support of the males, absent that and the family becomes homeless, destitute.

After the trials of repeated pointless lockdowns country wide, the people are not going to tolerate losing their male children to a pointless war.


21 posted on 06/07/2022 2:44:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGavin999

It is happening to our young people here in the US, so they just focus inwards; many could care less about anything outside their bubble.


22 posted on 06/07/2022 2:56:54 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Spktyr

Those same women become very undesirable when they reach a certain age (35?); that is when they become “leftover women”.


23 posted on 06/07/2022 2:57:44 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

35? LOL!

Try 27 in China. The Wall is 30 in the US but the Chinese are even stricter about it.


24 posted on 06/07/2022 3:16:48 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Spktyr

“China a short high intensity war into which they can feed their excess population, they have several dozen million men of military age that will never be able to get girlfriends let alone wives.”

Send them on a mission as cannon fodder to “denazify” some Russian land. Its ok, as Kazan, said, “borders change all the time” ;)


25 posted on 06/07/2022 3:42:54 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: RomanSoldier19

That attitude is happening here. Explains a lot of the killings. People with no values to begin with decide to do something about grievances...so what, there’s no hope anyway. Very dangerous times in which we live, to say the least.


26 posted on 06/07/2022 4:35:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ifinnegan
Young people in China don’t know that.

But young men in China KNOW they cannot find a wife, and if there is no wife, there are no children, and if there are no children, then they will not be worshipped or respected as an ancestor.

There literally is no reason for them to try if there is no hope of a family.
27 posted on 06/07/2022 5:32:20 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Those killing themselves work harder and harder only to realize their efforts do nothing for their situation.

If working hard won't get you a promotion because the government directs companies to hire people whose only qualification is the color of their skin or type of genitalia, why bother?

You work hard to buy a house only to have government take your tax money and give it to Section 8 neighbors.
You work hard to pay for government-aided illegal aliens.
You work hard only to have the government print more and more money to devalue what you have and rob your future.

When government employees take your tax money and use it against you, your rights, and your religion, why support them?

The first rule of holes is that when you're in one, stop digging... Who is John Galt?

28 posted on 06/07/2022 5:34:10 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Mark17

And Mao was the greatest mass killer in history.


29 posted on 06/07/2022 6:24:27 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: laplata
And Mao was the greatest mass killer in history.

I believe you are right. He is getting his, right now.

30 posted on 06/07/2022 6:54:06 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: RomanSoldier19

How is this different from the “lie flat” movement?


31 posted on 06/07/2022 7:14:30 AM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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“How is this different from the “lie flat” movement?”

It’s not any different. The scribbler is trying to be clever by renaming the “lie flat” movement.


32 posted on 06/07/2022 8:17:02 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: FreshPrince

The Chinese are unlikely to try that given the outcome of the decades long Sino-Soviet border wars. They also don’t want to cut their own throats on oil and some military tech (which they both get from Russia).


33 posted on 06/07/2022 10:16:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Yep valid points


34 posted on 06/07/2022 10:29:00 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: FLT-bird

It isn’t about “the wall” in terms of appearance; it is very specifically about bearing children.


35 posted on 06/08/2022 3:58:36 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

All the issues are tied together.

1. They’re not as physically attractive as when they were younger

2. you have much less choice in terms of when you will have kids, how many, what the chances are of miscarriages and birth defects, etc etc.

3. If you knew her in her 20s and she thought you not good enough, how can you possibly think that in her mind she is doing anything other than settling if she warms up to you in her 30s? Are you prepared to accept being settled for....being the schlub who just happened to be available when she ran out of other options? Don’t you have any self respect? How committed is she really going to be considering she didn’t really want to be with you in the first place?

For all of the above 20s, not 30s.


36 posted on 06/08/2022 5:46:47 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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